Felicia Lee, 40, was arrested this morning on charges of intimidating a witness in the capital murder case against her 19-year-old son, Michael Jerome Lee.

MOBILE, Ala. -- The mother of the alleged shooter in Christopher Kyser Miree’s slaying was arrested today on accusations that she threatened to kill a key witness in the capital murder case against her son.

Felicia Nicole Lee, 40, was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail on 2 felony charges of intimidating a witness.

Police have said her son, 19-year-old Michael Jerome Lee, shot and killed 23-year-old Miree in a nighttime robbery at his Macy Place home on April 16.

Lee and three other defendants — Bo Ellis Taylor, 18; Jamal Breon Lang, 20; and Ernest Teryl Wiggins, 19 — are accused of barging into the house and demanding money shortly before Miree was shot in the head.

While walking with her husband to their car, Lee allegedly told the the woman: “I’m going to kill you” and “if he don’t get bond, I’m coming to shoot your house up,” according to court records.

Lee also reportedly said “you better watch your kids.”

During Wednesday’s hearing, a police detective testified that the Mobile woman told investigators that she heard the 4 men talking about the shooting and making up a story that it was an accident, in case they were questioned by police.

Another complaint filed in court says that Felicia Lee pointed a gun at the witness while driving by her house on July 25, hours after Lee's son was arrested.

The report also says that Lee “continually calls the victim’s residence after being told to stop ... making obscene remarks to her over the telephone and this has caused her to fear for her safety."

“This is a very important witness, as came out in the preliminary hearing,” said Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. "All witnesses are important, but in a capital murder case, you better believe this is serious. And we’re going to take every threat, every suggested threat, seriously. We’re going to investigate every one, and we’re going to bring charges where those charges are warranted.”

Michael Lee’s attorney, James Byrd, said it was obvious that the witness is “making things up” because on the day of the arrest, nobody knew that she was involved in the case.

“Anybody can be arrested for any false allegation,” said Byrd, who does not represent the mother.

View full size(InsideVandy.com)Christopher Miree: 23-year-old shot to death in Mobile, Ala., on Friday night, April 16, 2010. Miree was born and raised in Birmingham, went on to be president of a Vanderbilt University fraternity, then took a job in Pascagoula, Miss., working for Chevron Corp.

Miree, a Vanderbilt University graduate and Birmingham native, worked as an engineer at the Chevron Corp. refinery in Pascagoula. He lived on Macy Place with a roommate, Curtis Wright.

Police have said on the night of the shooting, the four men were driving around, looking for people to rob. They spotted a friend of Wright at an ATM near Bel Air Mall and followed him to the Macy Place house, police said.

Wright got into his friend’s car and they left — leaving Miree home alone — while the four men parked nearby, police said. The foursome then walked up to the porch to commit the robbery, police said.